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“Wynnebago” is the name and to road-weary journalists who already feel like seniors in an Arizona-bound RV it is perfect.

Life after politics?

Is Tory Leader Tim Hudak secretly training for a job in the trades, just in case politics doesn’t work out for him?

He seems curiously attracted to photo-ops where he is running various types machines.

So far on the election campaign he has run a threader at Durham College in Oshawa, used an air gun to put nuts on a wheel in Port Hope, and on Thursday ran a milling machine at Conestoga College in Kitchener.

He didn’t seem particularly at ease with any of them. He was even warned by a friendly journalist to back off on the air gun a tad.

Of course, these photo-ops are all a back-drop to his main message of creating one million jobs over the next eight years — 200,000 of them in he trades, if elected.

And as part of that effort he is advocating that community colleges have a greater role in training students for various trades.

‘Salty’ indeed

Be careful how you pronounce this.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath stopped at London’s Covent Garden Market on Thursday and paused for a chat with the proprietor of the Ice Creamery.

One item on the menu: Just Phuket, described as “our take on Thai food — a spicy, salty, sweet peanut and coconut ice cream.”

Horwath opted for some chocolates‎ instead.

Minutes earlier, she bought what she called “NDP cheese‎,” holding it up to a reporter to show off a wedge of deep orange mimolette fromage with a dark rind.

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